Animal Characteristics 1
Animals are made of these types of cells.
What are eukaryotic cells?
An animal with a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
Arthropods with three body segments and six legs.
Long soft-bodied animals with bilateral symmetry.
What are worms?
All vertebrates have vertebrae and skulls and an internal skeleton, known as this.
What is an endoskeleton?
This type of animal can exchange gases through its moist skin, and can live in water or on land.
What are amphibians?
When an imaginary line can be drawn down the middle to divide the object into two mirror-image halves.
What is bilateral symmetry?
When an animal's digestive tract has only one opening to draw food in and expel waste, they are known to have this.
What are incomplete guts?
Arthropods with eight or ten legs. Shrimps, crabs, and lobsters are examples.
What are crustaceans?
Jellyfish and anemones belong to this phylum?
What is Cnidaria?
What are bony fish?
What is molting?
Jellyfish have this type of symmetry.
What is radial symmetry?
This type of animal has had a notochord at some point in their life, that may or may not have developed into a backbone.
What is a chordate?
Animals with no symmetry, no cephalization, and no gut. In the phylum Porifera meaning "pore-bearer.
What are sponges?
All cnidarians have these stinging cells used to capture food.
What are cnidocytes?
Lampreys and hagfish are two examples of this.
What are jawless fish?
This group of animals has hair and produces milk.
What are mammals?
What is asymmetry?
An animal that can regulate its inner temperatures.
What is an endotherm?
This phylum includes snails, slugs, octopuses, squids, clams, oysters, and scallops.
What is Mollusks? (or Mollusca)
This phylum has the most species of any animal phylum. They have jointed appendages and an exoskeleton.
What are arthropods?
Crocodilians have this many chambers in their hearts.
What is four?
This type of mammal raises their young in pouches. (Ex. kangaroos, koalas, and opossums)
What are marsupials?
When an animal has their sensory organs and brain clustered at one end of their body - the head.
What is cephalization?
Baraminology comes from the Hebrew words bara and min that together mean this.
What is "created kind?"
Sea stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. They have spiny skin and most have radial symmetry.
What are echinoderms?
Spiders, scorpions, and ticks are called this, which is taken from the name of their mouthpart.
What are chelicertes?
Snakes and lizards are know as this.
What are squamates?
Duck-billed platypus and echidna are two examples of egg-laying mammals called this.
What are monotremes?